Workplace Injury

Workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy to an employee for work-related injury or sickness without regard to fault. When the injury arises in the course and scope of employment, then a worker has NO right to directly sue his or her employer. Instead, workers are entitled to an automatic monetary recovery through a workers’ compensation claim when the claim satisfies certain legal criteria. We handle workers’ compensation claims by working with a firm that specializes in these claims.

Seif & McNamee handles the few exceptions to workers’ compensation, which are extreme situations such as when an employer acts in bad faith or intentionally or criminally causes harm to employees or another person. An employee may also have a claim for injury against another company or person, such as an injury caused by faulty equipment or machines from an outside company. If we are successful against a third party, then the injured person’s employer may receive reimbursement for benefits of workers’ compensation paid to the injured person.